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 # aptitude-test
+
 Create a website when a school student user comes, signs up using their information, pays Rs 1000 fee and gives an aptitude test of 2 horus based on their convinience
+
+# Setting up the project locally
+
+### Step1: Installing the dependencies
+
+```
+npm install
+```
+
+### Step2: Copy .env.sample to .env
+
+### Step3: Update all the .env variables with the generated keys/ values
+
+#### 1. Create database and Update DB URL
+
+#### 2. Create Google client ID and client secret from this url https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials
+
+#### 3. Create Github client ID and client secret from this url https://github.com/settings/developers#oauth-apps
+
+#### 4. Create Discord client ID and client secret from this url https://discord.com/developers/applications/
+
+### Step4: Migrate Prisma schema to generate tables
+
+```
+npx prisma migrate dev
+```